The French and Brazilian governments have launched a four-year plan to protect the Amazon rainforest,in the process reviving their bilateral relationship.
The Negro River is the Amazon’s largest tributary and the world’s sixth-largest by water volume.
Numerous studies have indicated that further deforestation would transform the Amazon into a net emitter of greenhouse gases and be disastrous to the planet.
Illegal miners and those destroying the forest had to contend with bad access to the outside world. Not anymore.
An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in the country’s largest indigenous reservation now under a health emergency declaration.
The critical ecosystem is being damaged at an unprecedented pace with grievous effects on biodiversity and human welfare,researchers say.
Reporter accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama to stop loggers and farmers illegally clearing land in the rainforest state of Para.
If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest,Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.
The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.
President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister knew the Amazon region’s annual deforestation rate was the worst in 15 years,cabinet ministers said.
The Brazilian scientists were sceptical. They ran different models to check calculations,but they all returned the same startling result.